Epidemics Quotes

There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

Fashions are induced epidemics.

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.

There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use.

I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.

Epidemics of "bad" voice can kill your reputation overnight.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.